Welcome to our survey!

We want you to rate how desirable is it to be for someone to be, in our culture,

  • extremely high (top 1% of all people)…
  • above average (top 30% of all people)…
  • neutral (e.g., completely average)…
  • below average (bottom 30% of all people)…, and
  • extremely low (bottom 1% of all people)…

…on a number of different characteristics.

Below we provide some examples of how we would like you to think and respond to “how valued” a person would be viewed by our culture, if they were deemed top 1%, top 30%, average, bottom 30% or bottom 1% for different characteristics:

TOP 1%:

This means that very, very few people are “higher” than the person along the characteristic.

TOP 30%:

This means that about a third of people are “higher” than the person along the characteristic.

AVERAGE:

This means that the person is perfectly “in the middle” along the characteristic (50% of people have “more” of the characteristic and 50% have “less).

BOTTOM 30%:

This means that about a third of people are “lower” than the person along the characteristic.

BOTTOM 1%:

This means that very, very few people are “lower” than the person along the characteristic.

We will be recording how long it takes for you to respond, so please respond as quickly but accurately as possible. The next few pages will be practice exercises to let you become familiar with the rating procedure – we will let you know when the practice ends and the actual data collection begins.

The item that you will be asked to provide ratings for is:

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Thank you!!

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